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MOIA, the future mobility unit launched a year ago by Volkswagen, has unveiled a new electric vehicle designed for ridesharing. The new EV, along with its supporting sharing infrastructure, will be rolled out first in Hamburg by end-2018.

The co-created MOIA vehicle was designed and developed in just ten months by MOIA, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, and Volkswagen Osnabrück. It has a range of over 300 km and can be charged to 80% in half an hour. It boasts USB charging points at every seat, reading lamps and space for six passengers.

The chauffeur will follow an algorithm-driven itinerary, with the MOIA algorithm identifying passengers with similar destinations and calculating best possible routes.

“We’ve set ourselves the goal of taking more than a million cars off the roads in Europe and the US by 2025,” says MOIA CEO Ole Harms.